If you’re currently enrolled as a student at Principia, chances are you’ve experienced some variation of one of the following scenarios. It’s 1:00 a.m. on a Thursday night and you’re finally ready for bed. Unfortunately, it seems your neighbors are having a raucous party next door. One guy in particular is just a little bit too [...]
Posts Tagged ‘student government’
Student Senate takes the helm
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Vegans and baseball players. Writers and comedians. Texans and Uruguayans. There is only one group on campus that has them all: The Principia College Student Senate. Composed of the Student Body Presidents and seven student senators, the Senate is primarily responsible for connecting the student body with the administration and enabling communication between the two [...]
The new faces of student government
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011Principia is undergoing many changes that will be enacted this fall. For starters, Principia is making the transition to a new semester system, implementing an exciting new schedule and adding new faces to student government. Over the past few weeks, seven Student Senators have been elected, as well as two new Student Body Presidents. Christian Richardson and [...]
Student Government
Friday, March 5th, 2010Hello Principians, Happy nearly-end-of-the quarter to you all! This will be our last Pilot column as we prepare to hand over the reigns to Laura and Esteban next quarter. We’ve been honored to serve as your student body president and vice president for the past three quarters, and are looking forward to seeing where student government [...]
The Fresh Faces of Student Government
Friday, March 5th, 2010As winter quarter comes to a close, a new Student Activities Board (SAB) is poised to take over in the spring, along with six students pioneering new positions that the outgoing student government has put in place.
Student government proposes new model
Friday, January 22nd, 2010During fall quarter, with the change to semesters on the horizon, Student Body President Will Buchanan and Vice President Chelsea Kendrick, both seniors, decided that change was needed within student government. They worked with Student Activities Board (SAB) and Presidential Board to determine the purpose of student government, how well they were meeting that purpose, and how they could improve. At the beginning of the month SAB presented a new model for student government at the quarterly Leadershop to the house boards, and the following week they presented the model at a public Student Senate in Wanamaker.
Student Government
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Hello Principians! We hope you’re enjoying the beautiful winter as much as we are. Your student government leaders will vote Sunday night on a new model for student government. This model is the result of a quarter’s worth of conversations with student leaders, RCs, and administrators, and it includes modest but important upgrades to the structure [...]
President’s Column
Friday, May 1st, 2009In our second column, we would like to share with you the two leadership tools we developed with the house boards at our spring quarter Leadershop. We believe that these tools will help us as a community to be more effective and efficient in our many endeavors. If these tools work for Student Government leaders, they will work for you too!
Grassroots government
Friday, March 6th, 2009Principia students are speaking and student government has given us a megaphone.
Last week, Student Body President Johanna Publicover notified students of upcoming student government meetings with College President Dr. Jonathan Palmer and Dean of Students Dorsie Glen about the daily schedule. She asked students to contact their government representatives and share their views about what the new daily schedule should be so that their representatives could effectively express the views of students at the meetings.
Tapping into student leadership
Friday, February 20th, 2009The student government elections that took place this week came at a vitally important time for Principia. As we face significant budget cuts and a certain degree of student apathy, the newly elected student leaders have a chance — and, indeed, a responsibility — to perform an important service for the student body and the college at large. The new student government leaders must act to represent student interests effectively to the administration and ignite greater student initiative around campus.
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